10/17/08 Maurer Meal

Maurer Meals are such a cool thing! Local restaurants serve them to "raise money for the Justin A. Maurer Memorial Scholarship at UMF while raising awareness of activities necessary to improve local community health nutritionally, economically, environmentally and spiritually." The meals are made all from local foods. Grace and her husband Tom and I went to The Homestead for Faculty Seminar and then ate dinner there. Tom had prime rib, Grace had a stuffed acorn squash (see photo) and I had blueberry pork marsala. Who would think of putting blueberries in a sauce with cream and mushrooms to cook pork in? Oh my goodness!! It was delicious!!

blueberry pork marsala

10/17/08 making sure it all works for the grant

Today MRM, who's also the head of the Farmington Cultural Heritage Project grant team that I'm a part of, and I met to get all of our equipment up and running. I purchased the laptop two weekends ago in Portland at The Apple Store and we ordered our high-end photo scanner from a reliable online source and it arrived Wednesday. It's a good thing we decided to do this trial run. It took a little longer than I expected. But we got it all running and the two pieces of equipment talking to each other so we're good to go! Exciting times ahead!

10/17/08 still autumn

There's more leaf droppage as autumn starts to wind down, but lots of leaves on the ground is a fun part of autumn, too. Meanwhile, there's still plenty of beauty on the trees. More crisp, clear, beautiful days. I'm trying to savor each one before they're gone for another year.